Znetalici
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Znetalici (Czech: Snětaliči) was a Slavic tribe mentioned by the 9th-century Bavarian Geographer. They are mentioned as inhabiting 74 civitates (settlements).[1]
While some scholars put them either somewhere in Russia,[2] between the Carpathians and the Danube,[2][3] or in Kiev,[4] the majority located them in Bohemia and near Lusatia.[2][3][5] They are etymologically related to toponym Netolice in Bohemia, and Serbo-Lusatian tribe of Neletici or Netelici. Mikołaj Rudnicki considered it of patronymic origin with suffix *-ici, deriving it from *Snetal ("big trunk"), which has survived as surnames Snětal, Snětalová in the Czech Republic and Śniatała in Poland.[6]